Two months ago we saw Miss Lynn Fontaine play the leading role of "In Love With Love" and it impressed us as one of the most amusing offerings of the season. We quite exhausted our vocabulary of adjectives in singing the praises of Miss Fontaine and still we thought we were saying scarcely enough. Accordingly it was without enthusiasm that we heard the play was to be produced this week by the Boston Stock Company. To put anyone else in the Lynn Fontaine role seemed almost a profanation. We went to scoff--and we stayed to have a good time.

Ann Mason Diverting as Always

The St. James players, courageously risking the inevitable comparisons with the original cast, make much of Vincent Lawrence's diverting comedy. The lines are just as funny as they were two months ago the situation just as amusing. Ann Gordon the young heiress with her varying moods and varying suitors playing at love and driving her lovers from ecstasy to despair to anger to anger and back again a dozen times is played by Miss Ann Mason. Miss Mason is not Lynn Fontaine, to be sure, and our praise of her might be much higher if the memory of her predecessor were less vivid: but she gives her usual finished, intelligent performance, and scores her usual hit with the St. James patrons.

Richards Stars at Puppy

The real triumph of the evening, however, is made by Houston Richards in the role of Bobby Metcalf, the lovesick victim of his lady's caprices. As we remember the original performance, we laughed at Bobby but our sympathies were not particularly touched. Houston Richarda's Bobby, on the other hand, stirred in us the hope that the ending has been changed since we had seen the play before so that Bobby might get the girls after all.

Gilbert a Mediocre Here

Mr. Gilbert is something of a disappointment as the young engineer who, quite without seeking it, wins the heart of the girl. He is good enough, but we have seen him much better. He makes the engineer rather a disagreeable sort of person and we find it hard to believe that Ann really loves him.

Paul Gordon is such a villain as there never was before. We have seen a few angry people, but we never saw anyone act as Mr. Gordon does when he is angry--even on the stage. He is entirely unconvincing where he might be very impressive. We are young and inexpeenced, and if some day we meet a villain like Mr. Gordon, we will extend the latter profuse apologies. But we don't believe there are any.